Qualla: Carmarthenshire https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Carmarthenshire https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire/ From the air, Carmarthenshire looks like Wales distilled: a green crumple of hills and river valleys running down to the brown estuaries of Carmarthen Bay, the dark spine of the Black Mountain rising to the east, and the pale crescent of Pendine Sands marking the south coast. It is the largest historic county in Wales by area, and on the older maps it carries an old nickname: the Garden of Wales. The county is mostly small farms, sheep pastures, and oak woods. It also holds a Roman amphitheatre, the cave Dylan Thomas wrote in, a racecourse built on a coal mine, and one of the last strongholds of the Welsh language on the British mainland.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/z/carmarthenshire-wp/gchz-carmarthenshire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carmarthenshire: Stone Tools and Sea Forts https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire/ Stone tools recovered from Coygan Cave near Laugharne show that hominins, probably Neanderthals, were living in what is now Carmarthenshire at least 40,000 years ago. Modern human habitation began after the Younger Dryas, roughly 11,500 years ago. By the time the Romans came in t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/z/carmarthenshire-wp/gchz-carmarthenshire-black-mountain-towy-teifi.mp3 0:06 3 full Carmarthenshire: Castles, Abbeys, and Dylan Thomas https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire/ Norman castles studded the county after Edward I's conquest, and the ruins of the better ones - Carreg Cennen on its crag near Llandeilo, Dinefwr in its deer park, Kidwelly on the Gwendraeth, Llansteffan on the headland over the Towy estuary, and Laugharne on the Taf - still anch...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/z/carmarthenshire-wp/gchz-carmarthenshire-castles-abbeys-and-dylan-thomas.mp3 0:06 4 full Carmarthenshire: The Garden of Wales and What Grows in It https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire/ The county nickname is not idle. Dairy farms cover the river valleys, and the Welsh black cattle and Welsh mountain sheep cover the hills. The National Botanic Garden of Wales, opened in 2000 near Llanarthney, sits inside the parkland of an 18th-century estate and is built around...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/z/carmarthenshire-wp/gchz-carmarthenshire-the-garden-of-wales-and-what-grows-in-it.mp3 0:06 5 full Carmarthenshire: A Language That Will Not Quite Leave https://qualla.com/carmarthenshire/ In 1911, 84.9 per cent of Carmarthenshire's population spoke Welsh, and one in five spoke only Welsh. The percentages slid through the twentieth century, the way they slid everywhere in Wales: 82.3 in 1931, 75.2 in 1951, 50.3 in 2001. The 2011 census recorded 43.9 per cent, the f...

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